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Valentine’s Day huh? That was just a few months ago right?
I would tell you that I’ve been extra busy the past few months, but I think I’m always this busy so it’s a poor excuse. But it is lacrosse season which takes away 2 evenings a week which means I need to cram more stuff into the other nights and leaves little time for me to want to type any more on my computer than I already did during the 8+ hours I spent at work. Maybe I’m not cut out for this blogging thing after all.
So I usually keep my blog filled with mindless, lighthearted dribble like what I had for dinner or what my dog has most recently destroyed. But I do a lot of blog stalking in the little free time that I have and am always inspired by the folks who talk about real things, on a regular basis. I’ve always enjoyed writing, I just need to make it a higher priority in my day. I also need to get up earlier and go to the gym and walk the dog more, but we can’t all be perfect.
So for those real bloggers out there who share their secrets with the world, I’m taking a cue from you tonight and venting into my computer screen.
Most of the people who read my little blog (if there are any left) know that Dylan works away from home most nights during the week. This leaves me home in the evenings mostly by myself – and with my big scary dog who will eat your face if you come near our house.
Dylan and I dated long distance almost all the way through college. We know how to survive in our relationship apart from each other. This fact, does not make our lives now any easier. I don’t know how people do this long term, or how they can work away from their families without coming home on the weekends – let’s just say I could never be an army wife. We haven’t been married long, but living alone most of the time while married is just strange. It’s never how I imagined married life would be when I was growing up. Not that I don’t love being married (and especially to Dylan)…and I suppose being married is probably never like you think its going to be. It’s always the little things that get me. Getting ready to go to bed alone and not having to fight over the bathroom sink to brush my teeth. Or waking up alone (well, next to my stinky, slobbery, ferocious dog) on your birthday. That one sucks pretty bad. But the bottom line is that Dylan’s job situation isn’t permanent. And so we both are pushing through for the hope of the next project to be closer to home. And there are rumors of a new project in the fall that would have my husband living at home for maybe even a whole year (seriously folks, we’ll have been married 2 years in September and Dylan has been at home for 3 months of that full time). Except with rumors of jobs in Portland also come rumors of jobs even further away than the one he’s at now. One where I couldn’t drive an hour to meet up with Dylan for dinner on a Tuesday night.
So that’s whats going in our life. And why I don’t blog all the time. There is no one else to blame if you don’t get fed, or the house doesn’t get cleaned and the dishes and laundry don’t get done. Or that flesh-eating dog doesn’t get a long walk in the evenings. But I’ll try to keep better tabs on things here. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get back to the mindless things in life, like the vegetables I’m attempting to grow.
Thanks to the following bloggers (who have no idea who I am because I just stalk) – but they’re a good read if you have a few minutes.
(and I realize some of these fall into the mommy-blogger category. This is no way suggests we are having a baby soon – Dylan’s out of town remember. But seriously, more than anything these folks write about life. And life for them just also includes kids. Mine includes a dog and cat.)